Objective The main objective in this proposal is to develop methods to identify the relevance and strengths of various barriers for energy behaviour changes among end consumers and households, and to discuss how activities from political authorities, energy producers and NGOs can overcome these barriers. We will address changes in consumer behaviour along two dimensions. The first is energy saving and improvement of energy efficiency within households, the second is changes toward more sustainable and renewable energy technologies. We are also concerned about the relationship between these three strategies; turn down and switch off, the purchase of energy-efficient appliances, and shift to (more) sustainable energy carriers. Based upon the state of art we have identified six barriers to energy change among end consumers, ranking from macro to micro perspectives. 1)Physical and structural barriers. 2)Political barriers, 3) Cultural-normative or social barriers, 4) Economic barriers, 5)Knowledge based barriers and 6)Individual-psychological barriers We will combine an individual and institutional approach. This means that individual and household energy behaviour – and changes in this behaviour – can only be understood by considering individual values, attitudes, norms and knowledge among individuals together with the context in which this behaviour takes place. We have developed a methodological triangulation with three main empirical approaches. •Qualitative interviews with strategic stakeholders in the involved countries •Representative quantitative surveys among consumers in the countries involved in the project. However, we will also include Greece in this survey in order to focus on energy related questions in the climate of SE Europe • Qualitative strategic focus groups among targeted consumer groups in the same countries. With strategic groups we mean people with different windows of opportunities and people with different social background, identified in the call text. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizationssocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomics Keywords Energy behaviour cunsumer policy environmental changes Programme(s) FP7-ENERGY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy Topic(s) ENERGY-2007-9.1-02 - Energy behavioural changes Call for proposal FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator STATENS INSTITUTT FOR FORBRUKSFORSKNING Address Sandakerveien 24 c, building b 0405 Oslo Norway See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Berit Nyborg Fjeldheim (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 322 000,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF SURREY United Kingdom EU contribution € 204 800,00 Address Stag hill GU2 7XH Guildford See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex West Surrey Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gillian Harding-Payne (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO Netherlands EU contribution € 207 403,00 Address Anna van buerenplein 1 2595 DA Den haag See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Yvonne Van Der Meer-Vollering (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE France EU contribution € 176 516,00 Address Avenue de wagram 22 75008 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Administrative Contact Christine Patte (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAET ST. GALLEN Switzerland EU contribution € 196 800,00 Address Dufourstrasse 50 9000 St gallen See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Ostschweiz St. Gallen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vreny Knoepfler-Mousa (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM Hungary EU contribution € 102 750,00 Address Nador utca 9 1051 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Zsuzsanna Gabor (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Netherlands EU contribution € 166 500,00 Address Broerstraat 5 9712CP Groningen See on map Region Noord-Nederland Groningen Overig Groningen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact A.H.L. (Aart) Korten (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY United Kingdom EU contribution € 80 488,00 Address St james court st james parade BS1 3LH Bristol See on map Region South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Bristol, City of Activity type Other Administrative Contact Simon Roberts (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
